I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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